LISTENING PARTY: Billie Holiday

12/5:  BILLIE HOLIDAY LISTENING PARTY.  Broadcasting from New Jersey, WBGO’s Rhonda Hamilton hosts a free listening party sharing and exploring Billie Holiday’s most essential recordings.  Join Ms. Hamilton from WBGO—the jazz mecca The New York Times called “arguably the best jazz station in the world”— leading listeners through seminal Holiday tracks, from her early 1930s Brunswick recordings through the album many consider her masterpiece, 1959’s Lady in Satin. Reflections on Billie’s key collaborators—Lester Young, Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, Count Basie and others—accompany insights into one of the most extraordinary discographies in music. Free with registration.